I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.